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Cross Ange Episode 04 – Holy Frozen Tits in a Sardine Can, Batman!

Cross Ange Episode 04 – Holy Frozen Tits in a Sardine Can, Batman!

As I anticipated episode 04 of Cross Ange, the thought crossed my mind on whether it would end up like Gundam SEED Destiny, where a series of strung-up, intense, events would subside into boring falderal. I was honestly expecting it here, since this was a lull episode where we learned more about the characters, Ange would soften up, and everybody is happy and moves on with life. Then I was blindsided by a picture of this scene. Oh boy, another…

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Legend of Korra Episode 4: The Lost Levels

Legend of Korra Episode 4: The Lost Levels

Since the main cast grew up during the time skip, someone had to fill the “annoying kids on adventures” part of the show. Even the best parts of Avatar must go through something akin to Avatar Day or The Painted Lady, where hijinks are going in the middle of something important. They don’t even give you the luxury of skipping this episode, since there’s still a thread of the main arc that keeps you ignoring everything. It’s like the creators…

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Crass Urrrrrrrrrgh/Cross Ange Episode 03 – Mammary Massacre

Crass Urrrrrrrrrgh/Cross Ange Episode 03 – Mammary Massacre

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, but not Norma (they’re less than human)! Lend me your ears! There was no rape or grope scene in this week’s episode of Cross Ange. But you DO get Ange pissing herself out of utter fear. So I guess that irons it out and you still have something to be offended by! I have yet to remember the last time a show really laid it thick on the protagonist that his or her new lot in life…

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Fall Anime 2014 Clusterfuck, Part 2.5: Yuki Yuna wa Yusha de Aru, Double Header Edition [The Eclectic Dude]

Fall Anime 2014 Clusterfuck, Part 2.5: Yuki Yuna wa Yusha de Aru, Double Header Edition [The Eclectic Dude]

That’s right folks, due to YuYuYu getting a delayed premiere, we got not one but two episodes of this show, a double header premiere if you will. Also, I am the one to write the review to round out this season’s Clusterfeck. Brought to us by the Studio Gokumi (A-Channel and Kinmoza) and helmed by the director-writer team of Seiji Kishi and Makoto Uezu (Arpeggio of Blue Steel, Carnival Phantasm, Persona 4 and Devil Survivor 2), comes what I think…

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Legend of Korra Episode 3: Salt Water Tophy

Legend of Korra Episode 3: Salt Water Tophy

This week presents betrayal and hypocrisy within the politics of restoring the Earth Kingdom. The promise of a spiritual world has run empty, letting the fury of fascism run amok. Yes, these tyrants have the excuse of cleaning up from the messes of previous despots, but they are too blind to recognize how their predecessors went wrong. The wheel keeps turning, and those who fought evil in the past have become villains themselves. While the Avatar cycle was hampered, the…

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Crass Uhnge/Cross Ange Episode 2 – School of Hard Knockers

Crass Uhnge/Cross Ange Episode 2 – School of Hard Knockers

I’ve decided to take it upon myself to chronicle Cross Ange. This may not be surprising given how my impression of the first episode could be said to be the most ‘positive’ of the bunch (although I completely understand everyone’s revulsion to it). You are right to think I am crazy to cover this, but think of it as a public service. I watch this so you don’t have to; you get live your life of no inequality, poverty, war…

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Legend of Korra Episode 2: My Berserk Self ‘n Me

Legend of Korra Episode 2: My Berserk Self ‘n Me

I see what you did there with the Kill Bill reference, Bryke. I remember that toe-wiggling scene almost as vividly as Tarantino can, so on to Korra and how she starts her rampage plot to kill all her former friends to avenge her dead baby. Like that part in the movie, it represents Korra trying to get back to speed after being hurt by people claiming to help her. Zaheer was like the keeper trying to slay the wild dog,…

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Legend of Korra Episode 1: Dinner For Four…ra

Legend of Korra Episode 1: Dinner For Four…ra

Looking at the usual opening where Tenzin gives his speech about how Korra needs to master the elements, I notice how this clashes with this episode’s tone. Three years since last episode, and most of her friends have moved on. They might not be comfortable in their new roles, and issues such as the Earth Kingdom’s collapse still ring, but the episode establishes that a world can function with an Avatar. The question remains how long it can function without…

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En el Kill la Kill, Capítulo 25: Oh Yeah, There Was An OVA

En el Kill la Kill, Capítulo 25: Oh Yeah, There Was An OVA

I tried weekly blogging an anime once. It didn’t end well. I wrote three fairly decent editorials about Kill la Kill. I put a lot of effort into those pieces, and I’m still quite proud of them. But that’s all I had in me; a few critical analyses about other critical analyses, as it were. Substantial arguments against other substantial arguments that fell on deaf ears because our readership was low. I wanted to engage in a discussion about how…

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Revolutionary Girl Utena Episode 8: Secret Lover Laser Razor

Revolutionary Girl Utena Episode 8: Secret Lover Laser Razor

The Great Curry High Trip… that title explains it all, doesn’t it? I was prepared to go all smarmy lit critic and discuss how the episode’s a discussion on duality between the roles women are given, but then they flew Nanami to Africa and the whole episode became stupid. It’s a fun kind of stupid, with some parts that make the episode almost worth the experience of a naked Saionji eating a banana, but this outing feels hollow compared to…

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